Clothesline fastener



E. BEAR. CLOTHESLINE FASTENER. APPLICATIONIILED MAR. 16, 1922.

1,434,802, Patented Nov. '7, 1922.,

INVENTOR.

ATTORNEY.

STATES EDWARD BEAR, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CLOTHESLINE FASTENER.

Application filed March 16, 1922.

To all whom it 07mg, concern:

Be it known that l, EDWARD BEAR, a citizen oi? the United States,residing. at Bronx, county of Bronx, and State 01 New York, haveinvented. certain new and useful Improvements in a Clothesline Fastener,of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in clothes line adjusters, and itis the principal object of the invention to provide a device of thischaracter which will allow a ready and convenient adjustment of anyslack in the line and effectively prevent the parting of a line which isaccidentally dropped.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a device which isextremely simple in its construction and therefore inexpensive tomanufacture and extremely convenient to operate.

These and other objects and advantages of my device will become morefully apparent as the description thereof proceeds, and will then bespecifically pointed out in the appended claim.

in the accompanying' drawing, forming a material part of this i vention:

Figure 1 is a diagrammatic view showing the device connected with aclothes line.

Figure 2 is a front view of my device on an enlarged scale seen alongline 2-2 of Figure 3, and

Figure 3 is an end view of my device.

The device comprises a body, preferably of metal, bent upon itself toform a member 10 of substantial U sh.aped cross section to provideshanks 11 and 12 spaced from each other, and the inner bottom wall ofmember 10 is corrugated as indicated at A pin 1 ispassed transverselythrough shanks 11 and 12 at a distance above the Serial No. 544,295.

bottom of member 10 and on this pin a toothed segment 15 is pivotallyseouired, having a flat part 16 on its lower face. Integral with segment15 is a handle 17 provided with openings 18 and 19.

A clothes line 20 is guided over pulleys 21 and 22 secured in the usualmanner by means of their eyes 23 to hooks 2 l fastened to any suitablesupporting means. 1

One of the ends of line 20 is guidec through clamp member 10 asindicated at 25 while the other end of said line is guided throughopening 18 and formed behind the same into a knot'25.

The operation of my device will be clear without vfurther explanationfrom the above description.

Changes may be made in the general arrangement of parts and theconstruction of the minor details without departing from the scope andspirit of my invention.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of theUnited States is A device of the class described comprising a bodymember formed by bending its material upon itself to form parallelshanks in spaced relation to each other, corrugations on the innerbottom wall of said member adapted to enga 'e one end of a clothes line,a transverse pin in said body member, a toothed segment pivotallysecured to said pin and having a "flat iface separating its tooth partsat its bottom part, and a perforated handle formed with said segment forallowing the passage of the other end of saidline adapted to be heldagainst said handle by a knot it'ormed in said end after its passagethrough said handle.

In testimony whereof I have atfixed my signature.

EDWARD BEAR.

